Peters



(No Model.)

P. SMITH. OOMBINBD MATCH BOX AND CIGAR. HOLDER.

No. 337,880. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN COOPER, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED MATCH-BOX AND CIGAR-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,880, dated March 16, 1886.

Application filed February 26, 1885. Serial N 0. 157,148. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILIP SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improve-- ments in a Combined Match-Box, Cigar-Holder, and Ash-Receiver, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a simple device comprising a match box, cigar holder, and ash-receiver composed of a grooved table, a match-box mounted on one end of the table, which is supported by a leg, and an ash-box formed on the other end of the table and adapted to receive the ashes from the cigars on the table, and at the same time to support said end of the table, all contrived in a single neat and efficient article for use on saloontables and other places where smokers are aczo customed. to lay down their burning cigars temporarily while playing games, &c., the object being to provide a holder for the burning cigar from which it will not roll away, as when laid on the table, with an ash-receiver suitably arranged therewith to catch the ashes falling from it, and with a match holder at hand for convenience in relighting, when required, as hereinafterfully described, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- A Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved combined match box, cigar holder, and ash-receiver; and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same.

I make a little table, a, of any approved form, size, and material, but preferably wider at one end than the other, with one or more grooves, b, in the upper surface; also with a box, 0, at one end; also with a suitable base,

0 d, at the other end for a matchbox stand, and also with a supporting-leg, f, to said stand; and I mount a match-box, e, on said stand, as shown -that is, by placing the box thereon and fastening it with a screw, g, or in any approved way. For instance, the box may be formed together-that is to say, integral-with the stand.

I prefer to make the device by casting it in molds or stamping it in dies. In the former case it is preferable to make the table and box integral, but in the latter case it will be simpler to make them separately and fasten them together. The ash-box serves for legs to the one end of the table on which it is formed; and

in this example I have attached a scratchpaper rack, h, to it adapted to hold frictionpapers "6 for striking the matches.

I have in this case made the table wider at the ash-receiver end than the other, because it is preferable to have the ash-receiver longer than the box-stand end is required to be, and I have therefore made the cigar holding grooves convergent toward the niatchbox; but this form is not a material feature of the device. I have also made the table in skeleton form by openings j and 7a through it in the grooves and between them, respectively, for economy of metal; but it may be made in entirety, if preferred.

By grooves in the tableI mean any form of depression, notch, rack, or equivalent device adapted for holding cigars in the manner which I have represented; and instead of the match-box per 86, I may construct the table with a cavity in the part herein called the match-box stand for holding the matches, and I may use the grooved table and the ashreceiver without any match-box, if preferred.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The improved combined match-box, cigarholder, and ash receiver consisting of the grooved table, the match-box mounted on one end of said table, which is supported by a leg, and the ash box formed on the other end of 85 the table and adapted to receive the ashes from the cigars on the table, and at the same time to support the end of the table to which it is attached, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHILIP SMITH. Witnesses:

W. J. MORGAN, S. H. MORGAN. 

